https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej JOHN LOCKE, PATRICK HENRY, JAMES OTIS en-us 2017-10-10 02:50:53 UTC 2026-01-23 05:27:19 UTC hello@padlet.com pease_m https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195558716 Quotations:
"Taxation without representation is Tyranny"

John Adams said of Otis "He asserted that every man, merely natural, was an independent sovereign, subject to no law but the law written on his heart and revealed to him by his Maker, in the constitution of his nature and the inspiration of his understanding and his conscience."

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James Otis strongly opposed the Writs of Assistance. He argued against it in court where it was deemed unconstitutional.


]]> 2017-10-10 12:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195558716 bell_l https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195558733 Quotations:
“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” -Second Treatise
“Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.” -Second Treatise

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John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"]]> 2017-10-10 12:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195558733 bell_l https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195561908 Quotations:
"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

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Patrick Henry was an American attorney, planter and orator well known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"]]> 2017-10-10 12:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195561908 bell_l https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195564465 A form of government whose main tenets are popular sovereignty, rule of law, and representative democracy. It is based in part on the ideas of Whig and Enlightenment thinkers, and was favored by revolutionaries during the Age of Revolution.]]> 2017-10-10 13:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195564465 bell_l https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195566322 2017-10-10 13:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195566322 bell_l https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195566767 2017-10-10 13:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195566767 bell_l https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195567270 The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.]]> 2017-10-10 13:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195567270 pease_m https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195567325 2017-10-10 13:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/195567325 bell_l https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/196572178 A thing or things belonging to someone; possessions collectively]]> 2017-10-12 18:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/82p4g3s4dlej/wish/196572178